A MAN who brutally killed his prostitute partner has been jailed for life and told he must spend at least 17 years behind bars.

A MAN who brutally killed his prostitute partner has been jailed for life and told he must spend at least 17 years behind bars.

Omar Jawanda murdered 28 year old mother- of-three Jennifer Linton in the Aldridge flat where she entertained the majority of her clients.

The 29-year-old was a "sponging parasite" on Miss Linton who was earning £87,000 a year from the sex market and she wanted to end their relationship.

Judge Frank Chapman told Jawanda that Miss Linton had degraded herself in her chosen profession, but it was clear she was doing all she could to provide a better lifestyle for her children.

"You were enjoying a free ride by attaching yourself to her," he told Jawanda at Wolverhampton Crown Court."

After the killing at the flat in Kent Close, Jawanda told her family and friends she had made a sudden trip to the United States on business.

It was more than four weeks before her body was found at a time when Jawanda was sitting on a plane at Heathrow airport bound for Los Angeles.

But, before he could fly out of the country, he was arrested because there were warrants out for his arrest over the non-payment of fines to Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court.

The judge told Jawanda he had never explained his reasons for the murder and that had piled on the misery for her family.

He said: "The family have not only lost a daughter, a sister and a mother but your lies after her death have deprived them of knowing how she died."

He said he felt Jawanda killed Miss Linton in what was "essentially a domestic quarrel" that had nothing to do with her work as a prostitute.

Jawanda who lived with his partner in Deansfield Road, Wolverhampton, denied murder but he was found guilty at the end of his six week trial by the jury who retired for just 70 minutes to consider the evidence.

The trial was told Miss Linton, who posed as a beauty consultant, using the name of "Sharron" had another flat in Aberdeen where she entertained her clients.

Before her death she had told friends she was fed up with the broken promises continually made by Jawanda and she wanted him out of her life.

After the case Det Insp Baljeet Sidhu, of Walsall police, said it had been a complex and protracted investigation.

"It has involved a large number of officers to collate all the evidence," he added. "We are obviously delighted with the outcome and the sentence that has been passed."